Prominent lawyers and law firms awarded at BW Legal World Launch Event - BW Businessworld Legal Leaders Awards 2019

The first edition of BW Legal World-Global Legal Summit and Awards-2019 took place at Imperial on 12th December 2019. The summit witnessed engaging sessions on various aspects of the legal world. These presented the current scenario of jurisdiction and legal framework of the country and also the way forward from here.

BW Legal Leaders Awards aims at recognizing & celebrating the best of legal minds in India across Law Firms, Corporates & Courts. This year, in the launching edition, we received 150+ nominations. BW Editorial Board added the editorial recommendations and all entries were presented to the jury. After 5 hours of discussions and deliberations, the final 42 winners were decided by the 7 member Jury Panel.  

The Jury was chaired by Justice Arjan K. Sikri, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India and included following esteemed people from the legal industry :

• Jury Co Chair - Honorable K.T.S. Tulsi, Member of Parliament, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, President, Criminal Justice Society of India
• Mr. Rajiv Jain, IPS Retd., Former Director of IB
• Mr. Pankaj Vasani, Executive President and Group CFO (South Asia), Publicis Groupe
• Mr. Rajeev Nair, Director Legal, HP India
• Mr. Sanjay Gulati, Group Vice President Corporate Tax- GST & Litigation GMR Group
• Ms. Preeti Wadhavan, Director– Legal & Compliance, Springer Nature Group India

The winners across different categories were: